SIGMMA Statistics Education Executive Committee Meeting Minutes

January 9, 2013 San Diego

  • MathFest
    • Consider putting together a session, panel discussion, or mini-course that would appeal to math instructors who are teaching statistics or who are new to teaching statistics
    • Target people from the local Community Colleges and other local statistics educators to teach a course at MathFest
  • Hogg Award
    • Consider expanding the nominee pool to include Community College teachers and pre-college statistics teachers (i.e. AP Statistics)
    • Reward a math person who teaches statistics and does it well
    • Solicit nominations by putting information in MAA magazine and sending information to MAA liaisons
  • Panel Topics/Paper Sessions
    • AP Statistics – pros and cons
    • How to hire a statistician into a math department (joint with RUME)
    • My best activities/examples (aimed at people who have never taught statistics)
    • How is the philosophy of statistics different from the philosophy of mathematics (get a panel of mathematicians who have taught statistics to discuss their experiences)
    • Ways to do statistical consulting
    • Service learning in statistics
    • My favorite data sets
    • More sophisticated understanding of bootstrapping and resampling
  • Other Areas of Discussion
    • Get time at MAA department chairs meeting to talk about statistics
    • Improve the SIGMAA website and perhaps put all JMM talks up there
    • Advertise to Project Next
    • Compile a manual for SIGMAA officers with a timeline for duties
    • Consider a $200 award for excellence in statistics at the MAA poster session (send an email to past winners and see how winning impacted them)
    • What does MAA need from SIGMAAs?
    • What is the role of our SIGMAA with ASA, CAUSE and how could they work together?
    • Where is statistics going?
    • Create a list of upcoming events and send it to the listserv every quarter.

Minutes submitted by Lisa Carnell, SIGMAA Statistics Education secretary